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i’m in central virginia, zone 7a. This previous winter i had 2 nights down to 8F and about 4 or 5 nights in the lower teens with only 2 days completely below freezing. Most of the winter it’s upper 40s and lower 20s! I got 10” of snow over a couple snow storms

the 2nd palm that i got this may too is also taking its sweet old time to open up new fronds 😭 im still at my first one for the summer!

@@CentralVirginiaJungle its opened quite a bit for me but its just not moving up. its staying at the base still

same here! that’s just transplant shock, at least tot mine! it should be doing well by august

@@CentralVirginiaJungle makes sense. even the new frond is a little droopy but i’ve also noticed some mature ones i’ve seen in person are still droopy so that might just be its genetics 🤷🏻‍♀️

Thank you! to my knowledge it’s a fortunei

@@CentralVirginiaJungle you can tell its a Trachycarpus Wagnerianus by how stiff the leaves are. Great little palm because the leaves don't suffer wind damage like the fortunei.

i just checked it out, they look so majestic! I will have to try and see if i can get my hands on some young ones… i’m interested!

Thank you! Appreciate it :)

i haven’t just yet! I don’t think i will this year, since it’s still on the smaller side, but i will revisit that topic again in a few months.

@CentralVirginiaJungle When you prune it tells the tree to direct energy to new growth. If the leaf is brown you should remove it. It also improves the appearance of the tree. I assume you fertilize.

@@2good2leaveunow Yes! The leaves at the bottom still are largely green so i’ll keep them around for a little longer. sooner or later they will turn brown naturally!

thank you! i can’t wait to see them!

thank you! i thought about that actually. i’m just worried we get too much rain here. 50” of rain for the entire year, every now and then i hear about them not getting through rainy cold winters! maybe ill give it a shot

I appreciate it! thank you for watching :)

thank you very much

thank you!

Thank you for the kind words!

I agree, there’s something so gratifying about seeing a new frond open up 🤣 thank you and here’s to many more growing years!

Thank you!

nice!! i’m hoping it’s an easy winter for us too. wouldn’t mind some snow though, we’ve been in a snow drought 🤣. Thanks for watching!

happy to hear!! definitely should do well this growing season!

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thank you!

It’s been a warm and wet spring this year, i’m sure that helps as well!

So far this growing period it looks like i’ll end up with 9 new fronds if it stays at this rate, hopefully it continues! exciting stuff

thank you!!

i’ve got that feeling too 🤞

i heard texas had back to back years of really cold winter temps

@@CentralVirginiaJungle yes we did

yes! south facing wall with full sun 8-10 hours in the summer

thank you! i was a little surprised when i planted it and took a few steps back, didn’t realize how big it was till then. but the nursery was/is a hidden gem, so glad i heard about it!

thank you very much!

i hope it comes soon for you! you’ve got lots of time to plant! perfect weather for it

@CentralVirginiaJungle it just got delivered and I wasn't home 🙄😂

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i hope they’re all still doing well! thank you, excited to see how it grows this summer

very nice!! from what i understand, the is around the size where they begin to start growing much faster than when younger!

thank you :) much appreciated

very nice i’m glad to hear, a strong and early start!

@@CentralVirginiaJungle Most definitely

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youll have a super happy palm down in williamsburg no doubt! windmills are some strong palms!

Thanks! @@CentralVirginiaJungle

those sabal palms can be a huge pain if not transplanted carefully, i think that’s why im straying away from them at least for now ahaha. but thank you! and yes it really is the best season, right now specifically before the allergies get too bad lool

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thank you!

we have a fairly wet and humid climate in the winter, some snow but a few nights in the single digits are pretty common for winters. Recently in the last month it’s been 45-55 highs and 25F-35F lows. My absolute low was 8F this winter and there is some browning on 2 outer leaves but that’s about it.

@@CentralVirginiaJungle I guess the issue with me is that the browning occurs on the center spears that are coming out

ahh lots of rain during a cooler winter can do that. i’ve been fortunate enough to have at least 3-4 days of sunny weather between each rainstorm which has done wonders

oh that’s very nice that’s fast growth! Virginia is warmer and tends to be very humid but we get some very cold winters. a few nights in the single digits and about 5-8 nights teens/low teens. i feel like that’s what really stumps them here

@@CentralVirginiaJunglei’m in jersey and dropping into the teens usually on happens a few times and single digits is usually every couple years so will that make it grow faster compared to yours?

@@jiafeiqueen that’s pretty much exactly the climate i get here in central virginia. I will say i do probably see a few more warmer days on average than NJ but it’s essentially very similar. Windmill palms never stop growing in the winter time they just slow down a ton! During the few winter weeks where we’d have 60s or low 70s i’d see some growth pushing out. I’d imagine you’d have very similar growth to what i experienced.

@@CentralVirginiaJungle oh honestly i assumed you might’ve been at a slightly higher elevation than me which is honestly pretty easy bc south jersey is so flat besides like the voorhees area which ik you don’t know where that it is but i didn’t know how to describe it LMAO but yes we experience those random 60 degree days and maybe one 70 degree day but if we’d get that it’d be in december not january or february. i really just want mine to grow fast so it can be more cold resistant but im also really hoping i got one with good genes. i heard some of them if they have good genes could tolerate to like -3 and that would be great since it never does that and if it does that’s not my fault and no one can be like yeah i told you that you can’t grow palms in jersey🙄 also thats cool that it grows all year around. i thought it completely stopped growing. also do you have any advice on how to wrap it? i’m def gonna do the christmas lights and then do i just wrap it in burlap? i really don’t wanna do that stupid box method it’s so ugly so i’m hoping i could get away with just wrapping it when needed. and i was told by a few people that at the height it’s at (2ishft) i should wrap when it starts to go below 27. sorry that i said so much 💀

@@jiafeiqueen the Appalachian mountains are super close to me (maybe about 20-30miles) but i’m at about 400-450 feet elevation, so nothing too crazy. i’ve heard stories that some can tolerate cold temps down to 0F or just a few below that but usually they’re pretty big and mature specimens. I’ve been researching overwintering tricks recently since i didn’t do anything to mine the last winter (Coldest was 1 night at 8F). i’ll probably end up insulating the big one some type of way if there’s any temps forecasted under 10F (usually happens once a winter). For you, i’ve seen success stories with a bucket full of dense leaves put over smaller palms to insulate them during cold snaps!

you are right, i can already see that with my potted trachy versus my in ground trachy. The ones in the ground are at least 5-10 degrees more cold hardy! I’m hoping this upcoming spring it’ll come back so i can give it a go, part 2 🤣

thank you!

i didn’t even notice how much it grew until i looked at the videos from when i first got it, surprised me! especially for all the way up here in virginia. but thank you! and thanks for watching!

I’m not taking anything less than 8 fronds and 6 inches of trunk growth this summer! ahahaha, but yes it seems to have established itself nicely, very happy about that

thanks for watching :)

I agree! the larger one is pulling through with just about no damage, i’m surprised. i’ve got a good feeling about the smaller one as well

Noted!! i will make sure to try and baby the robusta as much as i can for the slim hope it recovers lol. wow that’s quite the challenge and super fascinating, growing them all the way up north in wisconsin! I just returned the favor, thanks for watching and subscribing

I’m very happy with how the big one came out after the cold blast! the little one, i agree, is worrying me more and more everyday 😅 time will tell!